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DOOR HANGER.

No. 356,075. Patented'Jmp1.1,1887.

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RIOHARD MILLER AND JOHN GEORGE KAiIoIIsE, or ArrLE'roN, wisconsin, AssIeNoRs OE ONE-THIRD To WILLIAM POLIFHA, on SAME PLACE.

noon-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION :forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,075, dated January 11| 1887.

Application filed September 22, 1886. Serial No. 214,235. (No model.)

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. Be it known that we, RICHARD MILLER and JOHN GEORGE KANoUsE, citizens ofthe United- States, residing at Appleton, in the county of 5 Outag'ainie andState of Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in DoorHangers; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable oth- Io ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. 15 Our invention relates to improvements in door-hangers wherein the doors are hung from an overhead beam and sustained by rollers; and our objects are, first, to provide means for lifting the meeting ends of the doors free from the sill during the act of opening them; seeond, to provide means for giving the doors more or less lateral movement in a horizontal plane in the act of opening and closing them; and, third,to provide an inverted arched hanger 2 5 of one piece of metal, which shall possess great strength to resist edgewise and lengthwise strain and afford end stops for an anti-friction wheel, on the axle of which the said inverted arch is supported, all of which will be fully understood from the following description when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of our im proved anti-friction doop-hangers, adapted for 3 5 two doors and mounted on the curved central sections of the guide-rail secured upon the overhead beam or support. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a top view of one of the curved central rail-sections. Fig. 4 is 4o a front View, in detail, of the hanger proper,

its wheels and track. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the overhead beam with the track thereon, showing a portion broken away.

Referring to the annexed drawings by let- 45 ters, A designates the horizontal overhead beam, upon which the rails B C are suitably secured. These rails may be made of either wrought or cast metal, preferably of the inverted V shape shown.

The rails C C are straight, but the central sections, B B, are slightly curved or bowed, for a purpose hereinafter explained'. v

D designates the improved hanger proper, which is formed ot' a single bar of fiat metal, preferably of steel. The bar is bent so as to 5 5 form an inverted arch, a, of any desired radius.

It is then bent upon itself to form two looped stops and offsets, b b. lt is then bent again in a direction with its width, so as to form two depending arms, c c, which are perforated to receive fastenings for securing thehanger to a door. The two arms or straps c c are in a plane Y parallel to the plane of the inverted arched or bowed rider c, with a suitable space at the looped ends b b to overhang the beam A and its E 5 rail-sections B B C C, as shown in Figs. l and 2.

E E designate anti-friction wheels, connected centrally by a cylindrical axle, e, and adapted to roll upon the flanges of the rails B C and to be kept on the track and guided by the raised portions of these rails.

In operation the bowed or convexed portion a of the hanger D bears upon the axle eof the wheels E E, so that the door is suspended from said axle, and the hanger, is allowed to roll upon it a distance equal to the length of said bowed portion from one stop b to theother as the door is opened and closed. At the same time the wheels roll upon the track. In practice the length of the bowed portion a, together with the diameters of the wheels and their axle, are suitably proportioned tothe distance it is required the door should move.

It willbe observed that-in opening the door the prtiona will ride upon the axle e and lift the door vertically, and that in closing the door it will be lowered. Ve thus free the door from uneven sills, from frost, mud, and other obstructions at its bottom. lt will also be observed that by curving the central rail-sec- 9o tions,B, more or less, in opening or closing the door it will be moved laterally and freed from the side of the barn orbuilding, and yet when closed the door will be brought tightly against the casing.

By our invention we are able to close a door tight at the sides and bottom against storm and cold7 and can open the door free of all obstructions and with the greatest possible ease. Having described our invention, We claim- 1. The combination, with a door-hanger suspended by wheels7 of a conlinuonstrack having an angular serpentine portion the middle angle of which is at the meeting-point of the doors when closed, whereby the adjacent edges of the doors may be made to abut and move laterally toward or from a building, substantially as specified.

2. The within-described door-hanger, adapted to be secured to the side of a door, and consisting of the inverted arch or lifting portion a, terminating in looped stops and depending arms, all formed of a single piece, substantial] y as specified.

RICHARD MILLER. JOHN GRO. KANoUsE.

Witnesses:

J. E. HARRIsoN, Jos. KOPPUD. 

